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Deimos, Mars' moon, is the smallest known moon. Its mean diameter is approximately 12.4 kilometers (8.8 miles).

Approximately 21,993,756 Deimos' can fit inside our Moon, or 8,709,208,240 Deimos' can fit inside Earth.

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It's smallest named moon would be S/2009 S 1 at ≈ 0.3km in diameter and <0.0000001 in mass.

Many Moonlets are between .04km to .5km in diameter and <0.0000001 in mass.

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Psamathe, with a diameter of 38 kilometers.

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Saturn's nearest moon is "S/2009 S 1" with a semi major axis of only 117,000 km.

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Aegaeon is the smallest of the recognized moons of Saturn . . . there are smaller moonlets, but they have no names.

The smallest of Saturn's "planet-sized" moons is Encaladus.

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